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Jews around the world celebrate Passover this week. The holiday recounts the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. There’s...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
It’s usually bad or sad stuff we hear about when it comes to the developing world. But reporter Conrad Fox discovered bad and sad may all be in th...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:29
The Nahr Al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon was built in 1949 as a temporary camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the creation of the stat...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:13
In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, scores of babies are abandoned every year.That’s mostly because they are born out of wedlock, but sometimes becau...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:55
The recent fighting in Gaza has led to tension throughout the region.
That tension inevitably affects foreigners. Reporter Will Everett was in Sy...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 03:21
Journalists often face danger in the course of their work. Sometimes it’s from hostile governments, sometimes from warring factions, sometimes fro...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 04:22
The International Labor Organization estimates nearly a quarter of a billion children around the world work in some form of full-time employment. ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Cambodia has one of the world’s worst records on deforestation. But there is a 2,900 acre preserve of forest where local villagers have realized t...
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 02:08
This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 04:47
A personal audio essay about my Italian-American Nani teaching me the importance of showing love through cooking.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 06:19
